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In her first interview since her exit as co-chairman of Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal acknowledged she was fired. Speaking to journalist Tina Brown at the Women in the World conference Wednesday night in San Francisco, Pascal joked, "All the women here are doing incredible things in this world. All I did was get fired." After a long reign as the head of Sony Pictures, the studio last week announced Pascal was stepping down and would start a new production venture at Sony. She has already inherited several of the studio's biggest upcoming projects, including the next Spider-man film, to be made in partnership with Marvel Studios. Pascal opened up about the trauma of the...

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In her first interview since her exit as co-chairman of Sony Pictures, Amy Pascal acknowledged she was fired.
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Peter Parker is returning to Marvel.
In a reboot of the "Spider-Man" franchise, Sony Pictures Entertainment has announced a new partnership with Marvel Studios that brings the popular superhero into the Marvel universe.
A new Spider-Man film...

Sony Corp. said it has spent an estimated $15 million investigating and recovering from the massive cyberattack that crippled its movie and TV studio.
Since November, Sony Pictures Entertainment has been working to repair the damage caused by a group...

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"It...

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The streaming service Netflix wants to make Sony's "The Interview" available to its 53 million worldwide subscribers, Netflix's chief content officer said on Wednesday.
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Sony Pictures has set a Feb. 17 release date for the DVD and Blu-ray versions of "The Interview," the Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy that provoked the massive hacking attack at the studio.
The Blu-ray version, which is being marketed as the...

Sony Corp. Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai ordered the film "The Interview" to be toned down after Pyongyang denounced it for depicting the assassination of North Korea's leader, according to emails apparently stolen from Sony's Hollywood studio.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal apologized on Thursday for "insensitive" jokes she made about President Barack Obama in emails that were stolen by hackers who recently attacked the studio's computer network.The emails were...

Sony Pictures Entertainment co-Chairman Amy Pascal, one of the most powerful executives in Hollywood, has come under intensifying pressure after the release of confidential emails in which she made racially insensitive remarks about President Obama.
In a...

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